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Commentaries

22 March 2021

Chile in the Wake of COVID-19: Adjustments to the Financing Strategy and Commitment to Climate Action

The COVID-19 pandemic roiled financial markets, triggering important capital outflows in emerging markets. This increased the financing challenges at a […]
3 March 2021

US Yields on the Rise: Back to 2013?

From a historic low of 0.5% back in August 2020, 10-year US Treasury yields have climbed up to 1.5% in […]
10 December 2020

Roundtable on Argentina’s predicament: key takeaways

On December 9, the Chair in Sovereign debt organized an online roundtable to discuss the situation of Argentina following the […]
25 November 2020

UK hops on the sovereign green bond bandwagon, at last

On November 9, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced that the UK would issue its first sovereign green bond […]
5 November 2020

Odious debt and Hausmann-Gorky effect, from Venezuela to Belarus

Despite intense government crackdown, the popular uprising in Belarus following an allegedly rigged presidential election in August 2020 does not […]